Using a telescope the size of the planet, astronomers have captured the first image of this space oddity. Here’s why that matters.
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Today, scientists unveiled an image of that object, a supermassive black hole containing the same mass as 6.5 billion suns. Resembling a circular void surrounded by a lopsided ring of light, this landmark Black Hole Image is the world’s first glimpse of a black hole.
What is Blackhole?
A black hole is a region in space where the pulling force of gravity is so strong that light is not able to escape. The strong gravity occurs because the matter has been pressed into a tiny space. This compression can take place at the end of a star’s life. Some black holes are a result of dying stars.
Because no light can escape, black holes are invisible. However, space telescopes with
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Black Hole Image
More than 200 NASA scientists have been in the works for about two decades and funding over the years has come from the U.S. National Science Foundation also many other organizations in countries around the world. finally, the real black hole image is here.
The Event Horizon Telescope, a planet-scale array of ground-based radio telescopes has obtained the first image of a supermassive black hole and its shadow. The image reveals the central black hole of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the Virgo cluster.
The new image is the stunning achievement of the Event Horizon Telescope project, This telescope in the size of Earth, and it was able to collect more than a petabyte of data while staring at M87’s black hole in April 2017. after proper processing of the image now
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